Second Dock Icon

[Sim54]

I have recently started to notice that I have a second QS icon in my dock. It's over to the right, where apps that are not kept in the dock appear (my QS is over to the left and stays there). Quitting QS doesn't make the second icon go, and it stays with a running app dot underneath it. I have uninstalled and re installed, i have also recently upgraded to Mountain lion. Nothing works. I've checked top in terminal to try to kill it from there, but it doesn't show.

[skurfer]

One user reports that telling Quicksilver to hide it's Dock icon, restarting, then turning the Dock icon back on fixed this.

If that doesn't work, you could try manually removing Quicksilver from your Login Items, then adding it back again.

[MisterE-3]

skurfer, I did those things and while it worked on restart I have since seen 2 icons in the dock at random times. I don't seem to be able to reproduce it now, it's intermittent. When it is there it points to the one and only QS.app I have on my computer, same as the one I normally keep in my dock.

[Sim54]

Thanks for the tips, I'll check it out and let you know what happens.

[Sim54]

Ok, that seems to have worked for now. i'll keep you posted if anything else comes up. Thanks guys.

[MisterE-3]

Same problem here and it's intermittent, I can't figure out how to reproduce it. OS X 10.8.2 QS B71

[coca7]

When I follow the above suggestion about hiding the dock icon and restarting the solution works until I reboot. If I try the solution again it will work again until I reboot. Like others I noticed the issue after upgrading to OS 10.8.

[mengz0]

Lion 10.7.5. Same issue.

[brianogilvie]

Same issue here, Mountain Lion 10.8.2 on a 15" MBP with Retina display.

[MisterE-3]

OK, using the latest version of B71, there have been more than 1 B71s iirc, (3942) I unchecked keep icon in dock in the prefs and one icon disappeared. The other I went to CMD-drag out of the dock it did this hourglass effect and disappeared. I've been running this way for several days over several reboots and still no QS icon in the dock. I like it there though I will enable it today for testing. Last idea is to move QS and Dock prefs to the desktop and see if it's a prefs problem. Still running 10.8.2 on a late 2008 MB unibody.

[skurfer]

Wait, have all of you manually added the icon to the Dock at some point? That is, dragged it to a specific position so it stays there even when Quicksilver isn't running? No one has mentioned that detail. In any case, I tried doing that and rebooting and still can't get more than one Dock icon to appear. Is it only on reboot, or does logging out and back in also do it? Do you have "Reopen windows when logging back in" checked or not?

[coca7]

Skurfer, I just quit Quicksilver to attempt removing it from the dock and adding it manually. Here is the result. One dock icon disappeared and one remained. Dragging the remaining one away from the dock to delete it fails to delete it. When I right click the icon it says application not responding.